CSTU 101 Chapter 3: Ancient Greece
Actual study set with Questions and
correct/verified Answers
Which ancient civilization famously depicted bulls as central to their religious practices? - ANSWER-
Minoans
The first masterpieces of Western literature, the Iliad and the Odyssey, were composed by which ancient
bard? - ANSWER-Homer
What work is described as a 'long narrative' which records actions on "heroic scale," and often define
"national identity"? - ANSWER-epic
These "first philosophers to change Greek society" were known primarily by their embrace of skepticism
and their manner of debate, as exemplified in Protagoras? - ANSWER-Sophist
This philosopher is created with founding classical Greek philosophy and the belief that "The
unexamined life is not worth living"? - ANSWER-Socrates
This philosopher is credited with developing his 'Theory of Forms', famously illustrated in his "Allegory of
the Cave"? - ANSWER-Plato
Central Greek Achievements - ANSWER-Visual Arts - Naturalism
Philosophy - Rationalism
Math, Tech, Science
Political Science - Democracy
Poetry/Drama - tragic, comedic and lyric poetry
Greek Invention - ANSWER-crane and dice
Classical Ideal - ANSWER-Greek's need to be discover in the world or impose it
growing human power and ingenuity
rational philosophy and realist art
sense of tragic fate, human ambition and self-destruction
Bronze Age civilizations - ANSWER-Minoans and Mycenaeans
Minoans - ANSWER-- island of Crete
- powerful navy = peace and prosperity
- bull
- worshipped female deities
- highlighted equality and freedom
- artisans, craft jewelry, pottery
- Labyrinth and Minotaur
, Mycenaeans - ANSWER-- warrior civilization
- component of Iliad and Odyssey
- palace-cities functioned network states
- wealth focussed
- pirate expeditions
- fascinated with death and afterlife
Dark Age - ANSWER-a period of warfare and disorder, loss of writing and artistic craft
Important Greek Poem Types - ANSWER-lyric
epic
Homer - ANSWER-Iliad and Odyssey (epics)
epic - ANSWER-long narrative works that recount deeds on a heroic scale, centered on a hero who
defines a sense of ethic or national identity
Iliad - ANSWER-a Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing Achilles and the siege of Troy
lyric poem - ANSWER-brief, written on special occasions, and express inner feelings and thoughts,
accompanied by musical performance
Sappho - ANSWER-most admired lyric poet
- Island of Lesbos
- fragmentary form
- subjects of loss, love, and longing
Greek Religion - ANSWER-- attitude towards gods' power over human destiny
- please gods through sacrifice, altars, and temples
Greek Religious Values - ANSWER-Polytheistic: localized and variable
Anthropomorphic: fallibility (vice), divine wrath and anger, gods subject fate (hermes, ares, posideon,
athena)
Tartarus: place of torment
Elysium: place of leisure
Greek Philosophy was - ANSWER-- rationalism
- monism
Greek Philosophers - ANSWER-Thales of Miletus
Pythagoras
Parmenides
Empedocles
Thales of Miletus - ANSWER-all nature was composed of water
Pythagoras - ANSWER-advised disciplined life of silence and restraint and believed transmigration of
souls
Actual study set with Questions and
correct/verified Answers
Which ancient civilization famously depicted bulls as central to their religious practices? - ANSWER-
Minoans
The first masterpieces of Western literature, the Iliad and the Odyssey, were composed by which ancient
bard? - ANSWER-Homer
What work is described as a 'long narrative' which records actions on "heroic scale," and often define
"national identity"? - ANSWER-epic
These "first philosophers to change Greek society" were known primarily by their embrace of skepticism
and their manner of debate, as exemplified in Protagoras? - ANSWER-Sophist
This philosopher is created with founding classical Greek philosophy and the belief that "The
unexamined life is not worth living"? - ANSWER-Socrates
This philosopher is credited with developing his 'Theory of Forms', famously illustrated in his "Allegory of
the Cave"? - ANSWER-Plato
Central Greek Achievements - ANSWER-Visual Arts - Naturalism
Philosophy - Rationalism
Math, Tech, Science
Political Science - Democracy
Poetry/Drama - tragic, comedic and lyric poetry
Greek Invention - ANSWER-crane and dice
Classical Ideal - ANSWER-Greek's need to be discover in the world or impose it
growing human power and ingenuity
rational philosophy and realist art
sense of tragic fate, human ambition and self-destruction
Bronze Age civilizations - ANSWER-Minoans and Mycenaeans
Minoans - ANSWER-- island of Crete
- powerful navy = peace and prosperity
- bull
- worshipped female deities
- highlighted equality and freedom
- artisans, craft jewelry, pottery
- Labyrinth and Minotaur
, Mycenaeans - ANSWER-- warrior civilization
- component of Iliad and Odyssey
- palace-cities functioned network states
- wealth focussed
- pirate expeditions
- fascinated with death and afterlife
Dark Age - ANSWER-a period of warfare and disorder, loss of writing and artistic craft
Important Greek Poem Types - ANSWER-lyric
epic
Homer - ANSWER-Iliad and Odyssey (epics)
epic - ANSWER-long narrative works that recount deeds on a heroic scale, centered on a hero who
defines a sense of ethic or national identity
Iliad - ANSWER-a Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing Achilles and the siege of Troy
lyric poem - ANSWER-brief, written on special occasions, and express inner feelings and thoughts,
accompanied by musical performance
Sappho - ANSWER-most admired lyric poet
- Island of Lesbos
- fragmentary form
- subjects of loss, love, and longing
Greek Religion - ANSWER-- attitude towards gods' power over human destiny
- please gods through sacrifice, altars, and temples
Greek Religious Values - ANSWER-Polytheistic: localized and variable
Anthropomorphic: fallibility (vice), divine wrath and anger, gods subject fate (hermes, ares, posideon,
athena)
Tartarus: place of torment
Elysium: place of leisure
Greek Philosophy was - ANSWER-- rationalism
- monism
Greek Philosophers - ANSWER-Thales of Miletus
Pythagoras
Parmenides
Empedocles
Thales of Miletus - ANSWER-all nature was composed of water
Pythagoras - ANSWER-advised disciplined life of silence and restraint and believed transmigration of
souls
